There are various methods to preserve pumpkins

6:01 PM,
Sep. 28, 2013

Written by

Mary Longo

It is definitely fall as we're beginning to get questions about canning pumpkin. Is it OK to do? Well, yes and no. Home canning mashed or pureed pumpkin, like you find in the grocery store, isn't recommended. Studies dating to the late 1970s and mid-1990s demonstrated that there is just too much variability between batches of pureed or mashed pumpkin to be able to come up with standard processing times and procedures. That goes for any type of winter squash, and for pumpkin butter (pureed or mashed pumpkin with added sugar), too.